Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions. Firefox Ubiquity Command : A Firefox mashup that lets you highlight any phrase as your browse the web and find related ways to take action.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

When participants collected data, they learned a great deal about data collection processes but not so much about the overall scientific method. In contributory projects, participants collect data in a scientist-controlled process. Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. Here's a couple of GTD tips for processing your email and being more efficient from LifeHacker. NpTech Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. The cover is from a remix mashup. The FairShare service will be integrated with the Creative Commons license selection process and available in each of the 12 languages that FairShare currently supports. It gets your work out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. Examples of Mashups. Who Is Sick? Further Reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing is defined broadly as: The process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. Social media accelerates the crowdsourcing process – it can happen faster. The key is breaking down the tasks into bite-size pieces and engaging crowds in the process. 2) Crowd Creation.

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